Word: paces
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...respect the right of workers to strike, but we are increasingly concerned that the pace and direction of the negotiations could result in an avoidable strike," said Joseph Mullinix, vice president of finance and administration, in the statement...
Even so, the announcement was a bombshell. For one thing, the job terminations were much more numerous than anyone had expected--so much so as perhaps to indicate that a two-year slackening in the pace of layoffs economy-wide is about to be reversed. Challenger, Gray & Christmas counted reports of a record 615,000 job reductions in 1993; that dwindled to just under 440,000 in 1995. John Challenger, however, sees a "real risk that the pace is picking up and will surge in 1996." The AT&T layoffs point to more in telecommunications, he says. In addition, "more...
Becky and her partner never turned around or slowed their pace, lest they attract attention from other guests. At the end of the corridor, they looked back nonchalantly, then ducked into the stairwell. Becky pulled out a small radio from her purse. "We have a hit," she whispered, and relayed the room number. The searchers had found the simulated nuclear device, which had been emitting a harmless amount of radiation, in less than two hours...
THAT'S ONE REASON WHY THE process of getting olestra approved has taken nearly a quarter-century, a pace some in the food industry consider outrageously glacial. It was way back in 1959, in fact, that biochemists at P&G's Miami Valley research campus, near Cincinnati, Ohio, began trying to understand how the body digests fat. In particular, they were trying to identify a kind of fat that premature infants might digest more easily...
...guard continues to go smoothly. The children giving the roses and olive branches to the soldiers was an attempt by the Palestinian Authority to cool down the Palestinians in Hebron. It seemed to work. Only the mayor of Hebron was critical of the redeployment. He is frustrated that the pace of withdrawal from Hebron itself is going too slowly. When the troops finally leave Hebron in March, then things could get difficult. They are not going to be able to arrest Palestinians who attack Israeli targets. And the Palestinian police will be reluctant to arrest Palestinians because they will...